Posts by a couple of fellow authors talked about process and inserting "fun stuff" into their drafts, I began poking at the idea in my own head, and here are those thoughts.

I was thinking about some recent posts at three a.m. when, as usual, it was too hot to sleep. In the first, the poster linked to Michael Dirda's review of Neal Stephenson's latest book. The bottom line for Dirda was, "Well written, but boring." A day later, in a locked entry or I would link it, another poster made a cri de coeur against Jane ( Read more... )

Yesterday in another portion of cyberspace a friend was talking about putting some “oomph” into the writing, and I thought about that last night as the first of the family holiday gatherings happened (I ate! It stayed in me! Hurrah ( Read more... )